I love a book with a good surprise when it's designed well and adds to the overall story. This is certainly the case with Robo-Sauce. Not your average title, and thankfully not your average book.
We meet a boy pretending to be a robot who decides life would be better as a real robot. He would have loads of playmates and never have to go to bed or take baths. The nameless, faceless narrator then tells him about a magic robo-sauce. So the kid makes the sauce, gulps it all down and then bam; in a two page spread bursting with colour and chalkboard style illustrations he turns into an actual robot.
He wants to do cool robot things like activate his 'robo-rocket blast' and 'robo-tornado'. Unfortunately, it's just not that simple. The kid, turned out of control robot, invents a robo-sauce launcher and then the trouble really begins. He starts turning everyone into robots, even his family and his dog. By the end he can't help but turn the book into a robot and that's when you get to do something very clever that leaves this book standing out from the crowd.
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